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History

The Frontier Force Regiment (commonly known as the Piffers) was officially raised on May 18, 1849 by Colonel Henry Lawrence.


The force was composed of five regiments of cavalry, the Corps of Guides (both infantry and cavalry), four mountain batteries, one garrison heavy battery, four regiments of Sikh infantry, six regiments of Punjab infantry and one regiment of Gurkha infantry.


All the regimental groups were amalgamated in 1956 to form one regiment, the Frontier Force Regiment.


Colonels in Chief

  • General Muhammad Musa Khan HJ, HPk, HQA, MBE. August 31, 1964 - March 12, 1991
  • General Abdul Wahid Kakar HI (M), SBt. May 18, 1993 - May 17, 1997

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Colonel Commandants

  • Lieutenant General Khalid Masud Sheikh.
  • Lieutenant General Altaf Qadir MBE.
  • Lieutenant General Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram.
  • Lieutenant General Khushdil Khan Afridi HI (M), SBt.
  • Lieutenant General Ahmed Kamal Khan HI (M), SI (M), SBt.
  • Lieutenant General Imranullah Khan HI (M), SI (M), SBt.
  • Lieutenant General Mumtaz Gul HI (M), TBt.
  • Lieutenant General Tahir Ali Qureshi HI (M), SBt.
  • Lieutenant General Mushtaq Hussain HI (M).
  • Lieutenant General Munir Hafeez.

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References


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Baloch RegimentBaloch regiment is second in seniority after Punjab regiment in Pakistan Army, Whose oldest battalion ... (3844 words)
When the 13th Frontier Force Rifles was formed in 1922, the 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Rifles returned to their old numbers as the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th battalions, the 3rd remaining blank as before.
The Pathan Regiment was raised from formed fromthe 4th Battalion of the Frontier Force Regiment and the 4th and 15th Battalions of the Frontier Force Rifles.
Frontier Force Regiment was re-organized by the merger of Frontier Force Regiment, Frontier Force Rifles and Pathan Regiment.
Reference.com/Encyclopedia/12th Frontier Force Regiment (277 words)
The 12th Frontier Force Regiment’s origins lie in the four infantry regiments of the Frontier Brigade authorised in 1846 and raised by Colonel Henry Lawrence, the agent of the Governor-General of the Punjab frontier region, from veterans of disbanded opposition forces after the First Anglo-Sikh War.
In the 1922 reorganisation of the British Indian Army the four Sikh regiments (by now re-named 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th Sikhs) became the first four battalions of the newly-constituted 12th Frontier Force Regiment whilst the infantry element of the Corps of Guides became its 5th and 10th battalions.
In 1956 The Frontier Force Rifles and The Pathan Regiment were amalgamated with it whilst it retained the name Frontier Force Regiment.
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